Lamp-bracket.



A. H. S. SWAN.

LAMP BRACKET.

APPLIOA'HON FILED 001.30, 1911.

1,088,848, Patented Mar. 3, 1914 7325.5 lfo'mup @IED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

ALFRED I-I. S. SWAN, 0F ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ROCHESTERSTAMPING- COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LAMP-BRACKET,

To all 'wlw/m it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ALFRED II. S. SWAN, of Rochester, in the county ofMonroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Lamp- Brackets;l and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the specification,andv to the reference-numerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to stoves and more particularly to thesmall vapor or fluid burning heating units as typified by chaing dishesand tea stands, and it has for its object to so mount the lamps orburners of these devices that they present their flames very close tothe surface to be heated when in operative position, yet may be readilymoved to a position in which they will become easily accessible forfilling, adjusting or other manipulations.

To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvementsand combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fullydescribed, the novel features being pointed cut in the claims at the endof the specification.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tea stand constructedin accordance with and illustrating one embodiment of my invention; Fig.2 is a horizontal' section taken substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig.

1 and giving a plan view of the lamp and its support; Fig. 3 is a detailelevation of the bearing of the bracket arm taken in partial sectionsubstantially on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 and Fig. l is a detail crosssection through the table, showing the lamp body about to rise intoposition thereon.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several figures indicate thesimilar parts.

As before indicated I have shown my improvements applied, in the presentinstance, to a tea stand or stove embodying a top 1 and two oppositelyarranged supporting legs 3, between the lower portions of which extendsa table l for the lamp. The top l may be continuous or open or thekettle or other vessel may be so supported that a top, such as shown, isnot altogether necessary, but it is herein illustrated to representapproximately the surface against which the flame is to be directed. l

The lamp 5 may be of any suitable type desired, that shown being a vaporlamp hav- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 30, 1911.

Patented Mar. 3, 1.914. Serial No. 657,581.

ing a burner 6 and a controlling knob 7. Its operative position is onthe table 4- and it has hitherto been customary to hold it in place byproviding a socket on the table into which it is lowered. But theobjection to this construction has been that in order to provide roomfor inserting the lamp between the edge of the socket and the surface tobe heated before it dropped in place, the height of the stand must beunduly increased and in dropping the lamp into the socket its burner andhence its flame is removed just that much farther from the surface to beheated and therefore rendered less effective. l `u1thermore, theoperator must reach in beneath the standard to manipulate the lamp. loobviate these objections I provide a swinging bracket for the lamp whichcomprises in the present instance, an elbowshaped arm 8 preferablycomposed of a single piece of wire having its inner end bent downwardlyat 9 and removably supported in a suitable bearing 10 secured to theinner side of one of the legs 3, while the outer end of the arm ispreferably rigidly attached to a ring 11 into which the lamp body 5lits. The latter has a flange 12 at its upper edge that prevents it fromdropping through the ring and when it `is desired to lill the lamp oradjust it or manipulate it in any way, it is swung' outwardly on thebracket from the position of Fig. l to that indicated in dotted lines inFig. 2. The peculiar bent shape of the arm 8 allows considerable radiusto this movement so that the ring 11 of the bracket and the lamp aresupported at a readily accessible point on the outside of the leg 3,while when the bracket and lamp are swung inwardly again beneath thestove top, the intermediate portion of the arm S engages the inside ofthe leg as a stop, as shown in Fig. 2, to define the operative positionof the lamp, so far as its inward movement is con cerned. Were the lampmerely supported in this swinging manner when in operative position,however, the slightest movement might cause it to swing from beneath thestove top either partially or wholly, and to prevent this I makearrangements whereby the lamp actually rests upon the table 4 when inits operative position. To this end it is loosely fitted in the bracketring 11 so that it is allowed slight vertical movement and its flange 12does not, therefore, engage the ring when in the position of Fig. 1, andthe frictional engagement of the lamp bottop,

tom with the table is suiicient to hold it in place, although the ringof course still holds it erect against tilting. Vhen it is pushed ofi'from the table, however, it is supported solely by the bracket and thering and when swung back it rises slightly onto the table to producewhich movement its lower edge is beveled or provided with a cam surface13 that coperates with the edge of the table to raise the lamp in thebracket ring.

l claim as my invention:

l. The combination with a stove top and a supporting leg therefor, of alamp and a bracket for carrying the same embodying an elbow shaped armpivoted on the inside of the leg and permitting the lamp t0 be swungoutwardly from beneath the stove the intermediate portion of the armengaging the inside of the leg as a sto-p when the lamp is swung back todefine the position of the latter beneath the stove top.

2. The combination with a support embodying a stove top and a tablebeneath the same, of a laterally pivoted lamp bracket embodying a lampsupporting ring adapted to swing from beneath the stove top and abovethe table and a lamp supported in and resting on the bracket ring withits bottom below the level of the table and having vertical movementrelatively to the ring permitting it to rest upon the table inde- 1pendently of the support of the bracket ring when the latter is beneaththe stove top.

3. The combination with a support em- A bodying a stove top and a tablebeneath the Same, of a lamp supported on the table and a laterallypivoted lamp bracket connected to the lamp to swing it rombeneath thestove top. and to support it when off the table with its bottom belowthe level of the latter, the lamp being permitted vertical movementrelatively to the table and said parts being provided with means forele- ;vating the lamp onto the table when returned comprising a canisurface on one of them engaged by the other.

4. The combination with a stove top havt ing oppositely arrangedsupporting legs 1 and a table extending between the legs below the top,of a bracket comprising an elbow shaped arm pivoted on the inside of oneleg and carrying a supporting ring adapted to assume a position beneaththe stove top or to swingv laterally to the opgposite side of the leOand a lamp carried "loosely within the ring to rest on the table in oneposition of the bracket and to be supported wholly bythe latter in itsother position, the elbow of the bracket being proportioned to engagethe leg by which it is 3 carried to define the position of the lamp on lthe table and to straddle said leg when the bracket is so swung as todispose the lamp on the other side of the leg.

ALFRED H. S. SVAN.

lVitnesses:

G. TWILLARD RICH,

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